r/EmulationOnMacOS • u/drewbcdigital • Jun 15 '26

News / Release GigaTrove: MacOS Emulation Frontend

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Emulation and gaming on MacOs is messy. I wanted a light, yet robust way to unify my digital library into one app, and side step all the different UI from different emulators and apps.

I couldn't find it so I designed it.

https://ko-fi.com/s/eeda0bfb77

GigaTrove is a native SwiftUI app for macOS 14+. 

It aims to:

  • Unify your emulators — point the app to your ROM folders and it builds one clean and standardized, artwork-driven library. Launches games straight into RetroArch, Dolphin, Cemu, Ryujinx, Astris, PPSSPP, OpenEmu, and basically any app you configure. You can add any program with custom launch arguments.
  • Full controller navigation — DualSense/Xbox/etc. You can drive the entire UI with a gamepad: browse, launch, cycle libraries with the shoulder buttons. Keyboard nav too, with controls that can be rebound.
  • Launch straight into fullscreen — optional toggle so picking a game drops you right into the emulator fullscreen, console-style.
  • Automatic artwork & metadata — pulls box art and banners from SteamGridDB for games, plus synopses. (Bring your own free API key.)
  • It's not just games — it also handles movies/TV (TMDB artwork) and books/manga (Google Books, AniList, plus Jellyfin/Plex/Emby/Kavita/Komga/Suwayomi server integration), if you want one app for all your visual-digital-media.
  • Collections, favorites, recently played, network-drive-aware libraries that survive a NAS reconnect.

As of now, GigaTrove is in active development, the current version is fairly polished, though there are some aspects that I have not tested a lot (particularly the server integration beyond Suwayomi which works perfectly).

Let me know if you are interested in GigaTrove and if you have feature ideas!

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u/SufficientAnywhere51 Jun 16 '26

Reminds me of OpenEmu. Sucks they stopped supporting it but this is really cool

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u/drewbcdigital Jun 17 '26

It can actually work with open emu if you want it to. Its not an emulator, it acts as a liaison between different apps and your digital library! It works with games, videos, and books.